For me, it's now going on four weeks since my last swim. We were in Turks and Caicos March 7-14 for spring break where I was doing daily open-water swims along the beach. My last swim was a 3-miler on March 13. When we got back to the U.S., we had to go into mandated 14-day quarantine so I wasn't able to get out to go to the pool before they all closed. Who knows when I'll swim again...either open-water warming up (I live in RI), or pools opening again. I am maintaining fitness with bike rides, and a run here and there. And I know I there is other 'dry land' training I could be doing. But my concern when returning to the water is injuring myself because of doing TMTS. I'm just that kind of athlete. Raise you're hand if you think you're a candidate for a TMTS injury too.
Dan
Doesn't the risk of transmission have more to do with what happens above the water and not below? If you're standing in close proximity to and having a conversation with an infected person with a vat of sodium hypochlorite between the two of you, wouldn't you still stand a good chance of contracting the virus? Crowded warm up lanes and dozens of bodies behind the blocks as heats go off would be my concern.
Anyway, my hope is that antivirals that can shorten the duration or severity of symptoms will become available (maybe that has already begun, Remdesivir?)
I suppose you are mostly right although I would imagine with 2 people covered with chlorine water transmission is still very difficult...and if I can feel your breath on my back in a swim workout, throat punch is next covid or not.
I wouldn't lay too much hope on science. If vaccine becomes available, it will likely only impart partial immunity. Remdesivir supposedly decreases symptomatic time from 14 to 11 days (whoopie!)....price tag 4500 dollars--capitalism went off the rails about 30 years ago when CEOs decided they were worth 100s of times more than their employees (rather a more modest 3-4 times).
I've been doing postal swims for 20 years...the wave of the future I guess.
Doesn't the risk of transmission have more to do with what happens above the water and not below? If you're standing in close proximity to and having a conversation with an infected person with a vat of sodium hypochlorite between the two of you, wouldn't you still stand a good chance of contracting the virus? Crowded warm up lanes and dozens of bodies behind the blocks as heats go off would be my concern.
Anyway, my hope is that antivirals that can shorten the duration or severity of symptoms will become available (maybe that has already begun, Remdesivir?)
I suppose you are mostly right although I would imagine with 2 people covered with chlorine water transmission is still very difficult...and if I can feel your breath on my back in a swim workout, throat punch is next covid or not.
I wouldn't lay too much hope on science. If vaccine becomes available, it will likely only impart partial immunity. Remdesivir supposedly decreases symptomatic time from 14 to 11 days (whoopie!)....price tag 4500 dollars--capitalism went off the rails about 30 years ago when CEOs decided they were worth 100s of times more than their employees (rather a more modest 3-4 times).
I've been doing postal swims for 20 years...the wave of the future I guess.
